Hi Michael, I'm not sure I completely understand what you want to do but here's a few thoughts anyway!
If you want to define constants to refer to item numbers within a delimited string, you can define globals for each item number and initialise them to their values somewhere in your application startup script. This requires that you declare those globals in every script that refers to them (just their names, not the values). And yes, an include file function would be great! Alternatively, you might be able to centralise your data handling in a single script and make calls to handlers in it, but tough to know if that would work withoout more info. If you're using an SQL database, you can eliminate the need to reference elements of the returned data by element number by using revQueryDatabase. It creates a recordset without returning any data directly to you. You then use the revMoveTo.... series of calls to navigate through the records in the recordset. revDatabaseColumnNamed will return the value of a named column from the current record in the recordset so you don't have to be concerned with knowing where in the record the column occurs. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Michael Doub <m...@doub.com> wrote: > I am working on a project that is going to manipulating records of data. > What is the best approach to identifying the individual components for use > in different scripts? > > If the data was represented as some delimited string, then each item could > be defined as a constant. The question would then be how to manage these > constants in multiple scripts. I have not found any references to include > files, which was my first thought. > > if the data was represented in an array these solves the ability to > reference the items easily enough but then I assume that you would have to > create some special code to format the code in the correct order for > consistent input or output ordering > > I see when using SQL there is an option of identifying each data element > separately, but if you use the array syntax you seem to have the same > problem as a delimited string where you need to define constants to define > element numbers. > > Can anyone provide any sage wisdom from the school of hard knocks? > > Thanks > Mike > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode